Executive Order 14225: Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Directives to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture
• Sec. 3. Streamlined Permitting
• Sec. 4. Endangered Species Committee
• Sec. 5. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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The production of timber, lumber, paper, bioenergy, and other wood products (timber production) is critical to our Nation's well-being. Timber production is essential for crucial human activities like construction and energy production. Furthermore, as recent disasters demonstrate, forest management and wildfire risk reduction projects can save American lives and communities. The United States has an abundance of timber resources that are more than adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs, but heavy-handed Federal policies have prevented full utilization of these resources and made us reliant on foreign producers. Our inability to fully exploit our domestic timber supply has impeded the creation of jobs and prosperity, contributed to wildfire disasters, degraded fish and wildlife habitats, increased the cost of construction and energy, and threatened our economic security. […]